Faucet bottle-stopper.



No. 831,926. PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906.-

' G. W. BLAIR 8: L. WOLF.

PAUGET BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14,1906.

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GEORGE W. BLAIR AND LOUIS WOLF, OF I/VABASH, INDIANA.

FAUCET BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed May 14, 1906. Serial No. 316,715.

To all whmn it may concern;

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. BLAIR and LOUIS WVoLF, citizens of theUnited States, residing at I/Vabash, in thevcounty of W abash and Stateof Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FaucetBottleStoppers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to bottle-stoppers, but more particularly to afaucet bottle-stopper; and our invention has for its object to provide adevice of this character which can be inserted in the mouth of anyordinary bottle, but which is more particularly designed to be used inconnection with a large bottle for the purpose of filling smallerbottles therefrom.

With this object in view our'invention consists in the novelconstruction of the faucet bottle-stopper, and particularly in theconstruction of the key, which will be hereinafter more fully described,and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectionalview through a bottle provided with the faucet bottle-stopper. Fig. 2 isan end elevation of the faucet bottle-stopper.

Like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the twofigures, in which 1 indicates a bottle of any kind or type, and 2indicates a faucet bottle-stopper. The faucet bottle-stopper 2 comprisesthe barrel 3 and the key 4. The barrel 3 is preferably made of wood,such as red cedar, the end 5 being tapered and covered, preferably, withcork 6, so as to insure a tight joint or union with the neck of thebottle 1. Passing transversely through the barrel 3 is a tapered opening7, accommodating the key 4, while the barrel 3 is bored longitudinally,as shown at 8, said bore communicating with the tapered opening 7.

Referring particularly to the key 4, it will be seen that the same isprovided with a longitudinal passage 9, having a shoulder 10 formed atone end thereof, said shoulder being formed by reason of the entrance ofthe port 11 into said passage, said port communicating with a transverseopening 1 2 through the key, which will hereinafter be termed a vent.Threaded into the key at 13 is a tip or nozzle 14, the end 15 of saidtip or nozzle forming an offset in the longitudinal portion 7, the boreor opening 15 in said tip or nozzle being considerably reduced indiameter, while an annular bead 16 is provided on said tip or nozzle,said bead forming a shoulder to stop the entrance of the nozzle or tipin the key and also providing a stop for the entrance of the tip orshoulder in the neck of the bottle which is to be filled from the bottle1.

Having thus described the several parts of our invention, its operationis as follows: The faucet-stopper being inserted in a bottle, as shownin Fig. 1, in order to allow liquid to pass from the bottle 1 intoanother bottle, glass, or other receptacle the key 4 is turned so thatthe port 17 therein registers with the bore or passage 8 in the barrel3. The liquid is then free to pass from the barrel 3 into the passage 9and through the tip or nozzle 14 on the key 4. By reason of the enlargeddiameter of the longitudinal passage 9 in the key 4 the liquid passesthrough the reduced pas-' sage 15 in the tip or nozzle 14 with moreforce than would be possible were the diameter of the passage in the keythe same as that in the tip or nozzlev I/Vhile this construction at thesame time provides for the entrance of the said tip or nozzle into abottle having a very small neck, the faucet is vented by means of thevent 12 at the top of the longitudinal passage 9 in the key, said ventpassing transversely through the flattened portion 18 of the key, asshown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. As it is necessary to operate the keyby means of the fingers grasping the flattened portion 18, the flow ofliquid through the faucet-stopper can be regulated by the fingers 0n thevent 12. The flow of liquid can be instantly stopped by placing thefingers at both ends of the vent or after the key has been turned inposition shown in Fig. 1 and the tip or nozzle 14 has been inserted inthe.

bottle. The flow of liquid can be started by uncovering the vent 12, andthe flow can be stopped or regulated by covering the vent 12 eitherwholly or partially by the fingers. This is particularly desirable whenthe bottle 1 is a vessel of considerable weight and it 18 unhandy toraise the same.

Having thus fully described our invention,

what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is-

1. In a faucet bottle-stopper the combination with a faucetbarrel, of akey arranged therein, said key being provided with a longi tudinalpassage and a port connecting said longitudinal passage with the bore orpassage in the faucet-barrel, said key being provided with a port ofless diameter than the said longitudinal passage, said port enteringsaid passage at one end thereof, said key being provided with atransverse vent, said vent and port communicating with said longitudinalport or passage in the key, a tip or nozzle having a threaded connectionwith said key and a passage therein communicating with the saidlongitudinal passage in said key, said passage in the tip or nozzlebeing of a smaller or reduced diameter than the said longitudinalpassage in the key, substantially as described.

2. In a faucet bottle-stopper the combination with a faucet-barrel, akey arranged therein, said key being provided with a longitudinalpassage and a port communicating with the bore or passage in the saidfaucetbarrel, said key being provided with a thumb portion and atransverse vent in said thumb portion, said vent communicating with thesaid longitudinal passage in the said key, the whole being arrangedwhereby the flow of liquid through said longitudinal passage in said keycan be wholly or partially prevented, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we afliX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE W. BLAIR. LOUIS WOLF. Witnesses:

JAMES W. STEWART, O. J. HUBBARD.

